This simple analog or digital habit reveals your unique patterns and perspective — If it isn’t written, it will be forgotten. Some things are so poignant they’ll be etched in your heart forever, but those are the exceptions. It’s in the smaller, repeated bits and pieces of your life that patterns are revealed. …

Document everything, learn by doing — Welcome to the 13th in a series of posts documenting my plain text, paper-less, Obsidian-flavoured journey. Past Episodes live in my PTPL List. Other things I’ve written about Obsidian live here. Today I’ll be talking about — The importance of documenting your processes, no matter what they are How learning…

Whether in a notebook or an app, start today to record something of your life — It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a regular person in possession of an ordinary life, will benefit from recording the best of times and the worst of times. Analog or digital, daily, weekly, or monthly, if it isn’t written, it will be forgotten. The important thing is to see…

I’m having trouble with the Obsidian Git plugin—can you help? — Welcome to the twelfth in a series of posts documenting my plain text, paper-less, Obsidian-flavoured journey. Past Episodes live in my PTPL List. Other things I’ve written about Obsidian live here. Today I’ll be talking about — Backups! Wherever your vault lives, you need an extra automated backup (I use…

And always have the text that matters in the places that count — As promised in my last Plain Text, Paper-Less Digest, here’s the nitty-gritty on how to interact with your Obsidian vault in iCloud, without opening the Obsidian app. You might want to do this if — You store your vault in iCloud, but don’t use Obsidian Sync Obsidian takes too long…

Plus my first steps with the Tasks plugin, and an auto table of contents generator for Medium — Welcome to the eleventh in a series of posts documenting my plain text, paper-less, Obsidian-flavoured journey. Each post is a 5-minute or less summary of what I’ve written, implemented and been inspired by since the last edition. Past Episodes live in my PTPL List. Other things I’ve written about Obsidian…

If it doesn’t fit, it’s time to change—here’s how — Yesterday, Tony Stubblebine taught us about The Disease of Done in the Better Humans Newsletter #269. It’s a lesson you don’t want to miss. Most things are rarely done forever. Rather they are done for the moment. — Tony Stubblebine In essence, this is about proactively planning for change. It’s…

Is there a reliable way to get text into an iCloud vault, independent of Obsidian? — Plain Text, Paper, Less: Exploring productivity through a future-proof, plain text mindset, with a soft spot for the paper that counts. Welcome to the tenth in a series of posts documenting my plain text, Obsidian-flavoured journey. From this 10th edition onwards, I’m renaming the digest’s headlines to give room for…

Methinks GoodNotes is going to be a tad jealous — Yesterday, in that calm, obligation-free space between the end of the work day and bedtime, I made an astonishing discovery: There is a supremely elegant and editable way to write and draw, by hand, directly into Obsidian! I’m tickled pink to know that with the press of a key and…